War

A war novel is a novel in which the primary action takes place in a field of armed combat, or in a domestic setting (or home front) where the characters are preoccupied with the preparations for, or recovery from, war.


See history for specific wars.
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The Young Will Remember
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The Brunswick
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe
Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire
Ghosts of Sicily: The True Story of the Naval Intelligence Agents Who Courted the Mob to Fight Nazis in America and the Battlefields of Italy
Questions 27 & 28
The Nuremberg Women: The Untold Story of the Eight Women Who Brought the Nazis to Justice
Midnight, at the War
The Violence: My Family's Colombian War
In the Likely Event
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
Angel Down
Keeper of Lost Children
The Restoration Garden
The Foursome
The Faith of Beasts (The Captive's War, #2)
The Shattered King (The Shattered King, #1)
The Director
Family of Spies
All the Broken Places
The Quiet Librarian
We Do Not Part
A Crown of Ruin (Blood and Ash, #6.5)
War by Sebastian JungerUnspoken Abandonment by Bryan A. WoodOutlaw Platoon by Sean  ParnellHouse to House by David BellaviaLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Iraq and Afghanistan War Books
263 books — 474 voters
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World War II Fiction
1,471 books — 2,201 voters

Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,231 books — 2,701 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksGoodbye to All That by Robert Graves
The Great War
770 books — 601 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front
The Book Thief
Slaughterhouse-Five
All the Light We Cannot See
Catch-22
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Things They Carried
The Art of War
The Nightingale
Night
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
A Farewell to Arms
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Women
War and Peace

Lewis Carroll
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Lewis Carroll

George Orwell
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell, 1984

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